Mayor Sides With Foes of El Toro Airport Plan
Huntington Beach Mayor Pam Julien Houchen has joined several other North County officials in opposing Orange County’s plans for an airport at the closed El Toro Marine base.
The county’s plans for operating the airport “will have a significant negative impact on Huntington Beach and its neighboring cities to the north,” Houchen said in a written statement.
Specifically, jets preparing to land from the west at El Toro during windy conditions would pass over Huntington Beach, she said.
A vote by a majority of supervisors last week to approve an environmental review of the airport “has forced city leaders to wake up and smell the jet fuel,” Houchen said.
Officials in Fullerton, Orange, Tustin and Villa Park also oppose the county’s airport plans because of potential effects of jets flying over their cities. Many city leaders throughout South County have long opposed the proposed airport.
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